On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Not sure if this is related. We have a Win7 system with 24gb memory. It > has a 128gb SSD for the C: drive and 2 3TB hard drives mapped F: and G:. In > addition we have 6 external USB drives - 4 3TB and 2 4TB drives (all are > Seagate). This thing takes over 10 minutes to reboot. Luckily we only use > it for a backup for a local network and seldom have a need to reboot. We > have no idea why it takes so long but we figured it was (as usual) sloppy > M$ programming. Win7 is probably checking stuff on all the drives for no > reason. It is not a major problem for us since we hate Crapsta/Win7/Win8x > and continue to work on XP systems. We would like to find a solution if > anyone has any ideas. Note that all these drives were originally on an XP > system that rebooted fine, no delay. We only installed Win7 because we > wanted more than 4gb memory. > > --------------------------- Try running ccleaner first. Look to see what is in the start up by using the tools of ccleaner as well, then clean the registry. Next pull off the 6 usb drives before you reboot. What does sloppy programming mean? XP -> 7 only got better. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmylokfmsgfe0cfoeol6prps2of+5dqeguquuj3dsooo...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

